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(Talking about Japanese here) I don't know if this is how OCR would work here, but they're made of components called radicals. It's kind of like how letters ma
by Izkata 2mo ago
(Talking about Japanese here)
I don't know if this is how OCR would work here, but they're made of components called radicals. It's kind of like how letters make words, but in a two dimensional layout, and one letter was wrong and a nonexistent word was made.
For example 彁 is made of parts of 引 and 歌 (the first that popped into my mind).
IIRC there's only like 200-something radicals, though some can be hard to spot due to how they overlap or nest inside each other.
- cyphar 2mo agoI find 鸚哥（いんこ） to be the easiest way to type the right hand side of 彁.
- hippietrail 2mo agoEach character has one "radical" out of a set of 214, which was assigned by the Kangxi emperor about three centuries ago as a way to index and sort characters. Sometimes it's the whole character itself, sometimes it's a clear part of a character, sometimes it has to be pointed out. Some or all or none of the other components of a character may also be radicals or not. Westerns use "radical" to mean any component but I don't know whether that's common among Chinese or Japanese people as well.